Best PKM loadout for Warzone Pacific Season 4 Reloaded

Liam Mackay
Best Warzone PKM Loadout

The PKM is one of the strongest LMGs in Warzone Season 4 Reloaded, excelling at range with a high damage potential and large magazine size. Using the best Warzone PKM loadout will help you find battle royale success.

Warzone Season 4 Reloaded has brought many changes to the meta, even bringing Modern Warfare guns back into the limelight. That said, players looking for a great long-range option may not need to look any further than the PKM, especially after nerfs to the KG M40.

If you’re looking for something new to try, the PKM LMG is a safe bet, which can keep up with any meta weapon builds. It’s especially effective against snipers as its ammunition belt allows for heavy suppressive fire.

The PKM is an excellent addition to any Warzone squad and holds its own in Caldera and Fortune’s Keep. Here are the attachments and perks to make the best Warzone PKM loadout to maximize this LMG’s potential across the battle royale’s maps.

Best Warzone PKM loadout attachments

Best Warzone PKM loadout
  • Muzzle: Monolithic Suppressor
  • Barrel: 26.9″ Extended Barrel
  • Laser: Tac Laser
  • Optic: VLK 3.0x Optic
  • Underbarrel: Snatch Grip

The best Warzone PKM loadout is much slower than Assault Rifles in the primary category, so make sure you have a strong close-range weapon as your secondary.

Stick to the outdoors or hold down buildings with this loadout, and you’ll find squads running for cover as you relentlessly rain down rounds on them.

As this PKM is built for range, the Monolithic Suppressor and 26.9″ Extended Barrel are necessary for maximizing its damage potential.

The VLK 3.0x Optic also helps with range thanks to its solid magnification and hidden buff to recoil control. In most circumstances, 100 rounds will be enough but be careful of using the PKM out in the open as it has a slow reload time.

Warzone PKM

All these attachments, which maximize range, slow the best Warzone PKM loadout down. Adding a Tac Laser and the Snatch Grip counters these heavy attachments, vastly increasing its ADS time and recoil control.

If you get caught in an ambush or spot a sniper glint, you’ll still have time to react and get accurate shots downrange.

Best Perks & Equipment to use with PKM class

A Warzone loadout is nothing without its perks, so you want to run upgrades that will help you to survive in any situation.

Warzone EOD perk
  • Perk 1: E.O.D
  • Perk 2: Overkill then Ghost
  • Perk 3: Amped
  • Lethal: Semtex
  • Tactical: Stim

Explosives are incredibly lethal in Warzone, which is why so many players run semtex as their lethal equipment. If you have any hope of surviving a barrage of explosives, you need to run E.O.D. As long as you have any armor, you’ll be able to tank explosions.

When carrying the best Warzone PKM loadout, you’ll need something for CQB in your pocket. An SMG or shotgun will be crucial to winning close-range fights, and Overkill allows you to receive two primary weapons from one loadout drop.

You’ll also want Ghost from your next loadout to keep you hidden from UAVs and Heartbeat Sensors.

As the best Warzone PKM loadout is an LMG, it’s extremely heavy. Swapping weapons while carrying an LMG is a tedious task and will probably get you killed while in a pinch. Amped vastly increases your weapon swap speed, meaning you can almost instantly pull out a sidearm like the H4 Blixen.

For Equipment, Semtex are great for crowd control and can score quick kills, while Stims offer some great mobility and survivability for players.

How to unlock the PKM

Warzone PKM

The PKM is an easy weapon to unlock in Modern Warfare and Warzone, considering it is unlocked by default. You won’t have to do anything to obtain this weapon for the best Warzone PKM loadout.

Best alternatives

If you’re not feeling the best Warzone PKM loadout after some gameplay, you should try out the Whitley LMG which was buffed in the August 3 update. Or, if you want a long-range Assault Rifle, the BAR is a solid choice.

Image Credits: Activision / Raven Software

About The Author

Liam is CharlieIntel's Editor who focuses on Call of Duty but also plays lots of fantasy RPGs or anything else in his massive gaming backlog. After graduating in Journalism from Edinburgh Napier University, Liam freelanced in games journalism before joining CharlieIntel in November 2020. You can contact Liam at [email protected].